Has anyone ever heard of a "Jazz" tuning?

[Jason Kanter]

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Jarrett likes Werckmeister. See this interesting, though flawed, article
(the reporter didn't understand much of what Jarrett said about
temperaments)...

http://www.culturekiosque.com/jazz/miles/rhemile13.htm


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From: St=E9phane Collin <collin.s@skynet.be>
Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 07:48:27 +0200
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Subject: Re: Has anyone ever heard of a "Jazz" tuning?


Hi, Dave and Juliet
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I would tune the bass so the third partial (sol a twelfth above do) is quit=
e
in tune.  This would cause the fifth partial (mi) to be less in tune, but i=
n
jazzy alterated chords, this is much less a problem than in the perfect
chords of classical music.  What you get then is a much stronger feel of
solid basement for dissonant harmony, interesting for letting the
dissonances sing, without loosing the feel of tonality too much.
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Just my own opinion, no more.
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By the way, I like very much the sound of Keith Jarrett recordings.  This
sounds not only like ET, but mostly like Keith Jarrett.  A friend of mine
did a very clear demonstration that on any temperament (between reasonable
limits), you can make any chord sound very harmonious or very awful, just b=
y
mixing differently the volumes of the notes you are playing, and controllin=
g
carefully their brillance.
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St=E9phane Collin.
----- Original Message -----
From: David and Julie Streit <mailto:pianomann777@hotmail.com>
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 3:39 AM
Subject: Has anyone ever heard of a "Jazz" tuning?

I had a friend from Arkansas call and ask me a question.  This friend is
learning how to tune and one of her "guinea pigs" requested that her piano
be tuned to the "jazz" method.  All I can think of is that maybe a "Jazz"
tuning is some kind of newfangled temperament. Maybe Arkansas just has it's
own way of being different. :0)
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Has anyone ever heard of the "Jazz Method"?  And can you explain it?
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Thanks,
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Dave Streit, RPT
AAA Piano Service
Beaverton, OR




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